Terms of Use and Privacy Statement

Terms of Use

ATTENTION: PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. BY USING THIS WEBSITE YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND AND ABIDE BY THESE TERMS OF USE). IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS, DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.

Use of Site

These Terms of Use are entered into by and between You and Visteon Corporation (“Visteon”). The following terms and conditions, together with any documents they expressly incorporate by reference (collectively, these “Terms of Use”) govern your access to and use of www.visteon.com and any other websites owned or operated by Company (unless otherwise specified), including any content, functionality and services offered on or through www.visteon.com (the “site”). Visteon authorizes you to access, view and download the materials on the site for individual and non-commercial use, provided that you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original materials on any copies of the materials. You may not modify, create derivative works, reproduce, publicly display, perform, republish, download, store, distribute, transmit or otherwise use for any public or commercial purpose, any of the information, materials or data presented in this site without the permission of Visteon or the copyright owner. For purposes of these Terms of Use, any use of these materials on any other internet site or networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited. You will not take any action to jeopardize, limit or interfere in any manner with Visteon’s rights in and to the site. You agree not to portray Visteon, its products or this site in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise offensive manner. Visteon reserves the sole and exclusive right at its discretion to assert claims against third parties for infringement or misappropriation of its intellectual property rights in the site. The materials on this site are protected under U.S. and foreign copyright, trademark and other IP laws and Visteon reserves the rights to all material on this site with regard to such laws.

You may link to our homepage, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage Visteon’s reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part.

Right to Change Terms

Visteon reserves the right to, at its sole discretion, change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms of Use at any time. All such changes to these Terms of Use will appear on this page of the site and are effective immediately upon posting. We encourage you to check for changes to these Terms of Use regularly. By using the site following any modifications to these Terms of Use, you accept and agree to be bound by any such modifications to these Terms of Use. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features that augment or enhance the current site shall be subject to these Terms of Use. Visteon may restrict access to some parts of the site or the entire site.

User Submissions

Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under the Privacy Policy Statement, any material, information or other communication you transmit or post to this site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary (“Communications”). Your act of transmission or posting will signify your recognition that Visteon will have no obligations with respect to the Communications. Visteon, its affiliated companies, employees, contractors and agents (collectively, “Representatives”) will be free to use, display, perform, modify, copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the Communications and all data, images, sounds, text, and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes. You represent and warrant that you own or control all rights in and to the Communications and have the right to grant the license granted above to Visteon and its Representatives, successors and assigns. Visteon is not responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any Communications posted by you or any other user of the Site. In addition Visteon has the right to disclose your identify or other information about you to any third party who claims that material posted by you violates their rights, including their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.

Disclaimer

Your use of the site, the materials, items and services provided at, or through this site are provided “as is” and “as available” basis, without any warranties of any kind, either express or implied and are made available solely for general information purposes. Neither Visteon nor any person associated with Visteon makes any warranty or representation with respect to the completeness, security, reliability, quality, accuracy, or availability of the site. Without limiting the foregoing, neither Visteon nor anyone associated with Visteon represents or warrants that the site, its content or any services or items obtained through the site will be accurate, reliable, error-free or uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected, that our site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components or that the site or any services or items obtained through the site will otherwise meet your needs or expectations. Visteon hereby disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, statutory or otherwise, including but not limited to any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property.

Visteon further does not warrant the accuracy, usefulness, and completeness of the materials or services at this site. Visteon may make changes to the materials and services at this site, or to the products and prices described in them, at any time without notice. The materials and services at this site may be out of date, and Visteon makes no commitment to update the materials and services at this site. Information published at this site may refer to products, programs or services that are not available in your country. Such references do not imply that Visteon intends to announce such products, programs or services in your country. Consult your local Visteon business contact for information regarding the products, programs and services that may be available to you. Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.

You understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the internet or the site will be free of viruses or other destructive code. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for anti-virus protection and accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to our site for any reconstruction of any lost data.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the site or any services or items obtained through the site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

The foregoing does not affect any warranties which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Limitation of Liability

Visteon, its affiliates and its suppliers, licensors, service providers, employees, agents, officers or directors will in no circumstance, be liable for any damages of any kind, under any legal theory whatsoever arising out of or in connection with your use or inability to use of this site, any websites linked to it, any content on the site or such other websites or any services, materials, information, data, or items obtained through the site or such other websites (including, without limitation any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, including, those resulting from lost profits, lost data or business interruption personal injury, pain and suffering, loss of revenue, loss of profits, loss of business or anticipated savings, loss of use, loss of goodwill, whether such damages are based on warranty, contract, tort or any other legal theory and whether or not advised of the possibility of such damages). All use is at your own risk, and you assume all costs of such risk.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Visteon, its affiliates, licensors, and service providers, and its and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, suppliers, successors, and assigns from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms of Use or your use of the website, including, but not limited to any use of the site’s content, services, and products other than as expressly authorized in these Terms of Use or your use of any information obtained from the site.

Links to Other Websites

Links to other, non-Visteon Internet sites on this site are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave this site. Visteon has not reviewed all of these third party sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites or their content. Visteon does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. Use of third party sites is entirely at your own risk. Visteon is not responsible, or liable to you or any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials provided by any third parties.

Applicable Laws

This site is administered by Visteon Corporation, Van Buren Township, Michigan, U.S. Visteon makes no representation that materials or services at this site are appropriate or available for use outside the U.S. You may not use or export or re-export the materials or services at this site or any copy or adaptation in violation of any applicable laws or regulations including without limitation U.S. export laws and regulations. If you choose to access this site from outside the U.S., you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws.

Accounts and Security

If any of the services on the website requires you to open an account, you must complete the registration process by providing us with true, current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form, and you will maintain and promptly update such information to keep it true, current, complete and accurate. You also will choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify Visteon immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. Visteon will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by Visteon or another party due to someone else using your account or password. You may not use anyone else’s account at any time, without the permission of the account holder. You acknowledge and agree that certain services may provide password-restricted access to customer information such as names and certain terms of your contracts. By using this website and registering for such services, you consent to Visteon’s display of such information via the services and accept all risks of unauthorized access to such information. If you provide any information that is false, inaccurate, out of date, or incomplete, or Visteon has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is false, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, Visteon may suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the services or any portion thereof. You are responsible for all costs and charges – including without limitation, phone charges and telecommunications equipment – that you incur in order to use the services.

Unlawful or Prohibited Use

As a condition of your use of the website, you will not use the website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any Visteon server, or the network(s) connected to any Visteon server, or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the website (including, without limitation, denial-of-service attacks in any form or manner and introducing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful). You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to services, materials, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to any Visteon server or to the website, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the website. You may not transmit, or procure the sending of, any advertising or promotional material without Visteon’s prior written consent, including any “junk mail,” “chain letter” or “spam” or any other similar solicitation.

Unsolicited Ideas

Neither Visteon nor its employees accept or consider unsolicited ideas, including ideas for new advertising campaigns, new promotions, new or improved products or technologies, product enhancements, processes, materials, marketing plans or new product names (collectively, “Ideas”). Please do not send any original creative artwork, suggestions, or inventions (filed or unfiled), designs, concepts, developments or other works (collectively, “Works”). The sole purpose of this policy is to avoid potential misunderstandings or disputes when Visteon’s product or marketing strategies might seem similar to Ideas or Works submitted to Visteon. If, despite our request that you not send us your Ideas, you still send them, then regardless of what your letter says, the following terms shall apply to your idea submission.

You agree that: (1) your Ideas and Works will automatically become the property of Visteon, without compensation to you and/or Visteon is granted an automatic unrestricted, royalty-free, perpetual, transferrable, assignable and worldwide license to such Ideas and Works, (2) Visteon can use the ideas for any purpose and in any way, even give them to others and (3) Visteon has no obligation to maintain confidentiality in such Ideas and Works.

Trademark Notice

All trademarks displayed on this site are owned exclusively by Visteon Corporation, or are used by Visteon Corporation under license. These trademarks include marks that are registered and unregistered and include, but are not limited to, product brand names, slogans, logos and emblems. The unauthorized use of any trademark owned or used by Visteon is strictly prohibited.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

All matters relating to the website and these Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising therefrom or related thereto (in each case, including non-contractual disputes or claims), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Michigan without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of Michigan or any other jurisdiction).

Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these Terms of Use or the website shall be instituted exclusively in the federal courts of the United States or the courts of the State of Michigan, in each case located in the County of Wayne (although we retain the right to bring any suit, action, or proceeding against you for breach of these Terms of Use in your country of residence or any other relevant country). You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and to venue in such courts.

Privacy Statement

Visteon respects your privacy. At all times we will strive to keep your personal information confidential. We will only collect, store, and use any personal information you provide to us for defined purposes and will share it only with companies who share our commitment to protecting your privacy and data. By accessing this website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you have the choice to not use our website.

You may contact Visteon’s Legal Department, One Village Center Drive, Van Buren Township, MI USA 48111 any time with any questions or concerns you may have regarding the privacy policy.

The Visteon Privacy Policy is subject to change at any time. We encourage you to review the privacy policy regularly for any changes.

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect on this website, in email text and other electronic messages between you and this website. It does not apply to information collected by us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Visteon or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries) or any third party, including through any application or content that may link or be accessible from or on the website.

Normal Website Usage

As you navigate through and interact with our site, we may use data collection technologies to gather information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including: (1) Details of your visits to our site, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and resources you access and use on the website, and (2) Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type. We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services. The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. Doing so helps us improve our website and deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to: (1) Estimate our audience size and usage patterns, (2) Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our website according to your individual interests, (3) Speed up your searches, or (4) Recognize you when you return to our website. In addition, we may use third-party analytical tools such as Google Analytics to track the above information, and your information may be associated with personal information held by those third parties.

Legal Basis for Processing

Visteon is entitled to process your data when you are visiting our websites (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR). If you subscribe to any service for which Visteon is asking you to provide consent, the legal basis of processing your data will be your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR); you may be provided additional information on the processing in such case. You may revoke your consent at any time by following the steps to unsubscribe. If you have subscribed to a newsletter or a service, Visteon may send you additional information about similar services or products. You may revoke your consent to receive this additional information at any time by following the steps to unsubscribe. You may also send an email in this regard to the contact information at the end of this Policy.

Why and When We Collect Personal Information

Sometimes, it is necessary to collect data in order to fulfill a visitor’s request for a service or correspondence. This information, such as name, mailing address, email address, type of request or additional information, is collected and stored by Visteon to fulfill your request. Your personal information is never given to any other company for that company’s independent use. Visteon may employ third-parties to perform services or functions on our behalf. These companies may require access to personal information in order to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.

Visitors to Visteon’s website provide personally identifying information only when using one or more of the following services:

Contact forms

Resume submission

Requests for additional information such as annual reports or other brochures

Surveys and business reply forms

Subscription emails

Any other request or communication with the website

How We Collect Personal Information

Like many websites, Visteon’s website uses “cookie” technology. When you first connect to our site, the cookie identifies your browser with a unique, random number. Cookies help us determine past users from new users and unique users, and to understand which parts of our websites are the most popular, where our visitors are going and how long they spend there. Your browser has options to accept, reject, or provide you with notice when a cookie is sent. A cookie may exist for up to 12 months.

In some of our communications, we use a “click-through URL.” When you click one of these URLs, you pass through our web server before arriving at the website that is your destination. We may use Google Analytics (see below) to track data such as page URL, page title, browser information and language setting to help us determine your interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of our stakeholder communications.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., hereafter “Google,” located at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/), for the purpose of designing and continually optimizing our sites.

In this context, pseudonymised usage profiles are created and cookies are used. The information generated by the cookie includes:

Browser type / version

User operating system

Referrer URL (the previously visited page)

Host name of the accessing computer (IP address)

Time of server request

This information is likely transmitted to a Google server in the U.S. and stored there. The information is used to evaluate the use of the website for reports, create reports about the website activities and providing other services connected with the use of the website and the internet for the purposes of market research and need-based design of these websites. This information may also be transferred to third parties, if required by law or if third parties process the data in the order. Your IP address will not be merged with other data from Google. IP addresses are anonymized, so that an assignment is not possible (IP masking). You may refuse the use of cookies by a corresponding featuring of your browser; however, if this is done, all features of this website may not be fully available.

You may also use a browser add-on to prevent your data from being used by Google. If you want to opt-out, download and install a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. A version for browsers on mobile devices may also be available. This will install an opt-out cookie which will block the future collection of your information. The opt-out cookie may only be valid on certain browsers and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in your browser, you may need to install the opt-out cookie again.

For more information about privacy in connection with Google Analytics, see the Google Analytics website.

Social Media Plug-ins

Our website may contain links to our social media channels or social media plug-ins (as referenced in Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f) DS-GVO). The underlying commercial purpose is a legitimate interest in the sense of DSGVO. Responsibility for the operation compliance with data protection is to be guaranteed by the respective social media providers. The integration of these plug-ins is done by way of a “two-click method” for convenience to visitors of our website – the website will require the visitor to take at least two steps prior to the content being shared to social media channels.

YouTube

Our website may contain links to Visteon’s YouTube channel. Visteon may integrate videos on in its website, which may be stored on www.youtube.com. These videos can be played on our website. When you visit Visteon’s website, YouTube receives information on video you watch. Your personal data is transmitted to YouTube, regardless of if you are logged into your YouTube account, and may take place even if you do not maintain such account. If you are logged into your YouTube account, your personal data will be associated with your YouTube profile.

If you do not want your personal data to be associated with your profile, log out of your YouTube account prior to watching a YouTube video on our website. The legal basis for integration of YouTube Videos into Visteon’s website is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Visteon uses YouTube videos share useful information about our products and services.

YouTube stores your data as a user profile and uses your personal data for advertisement, market research and/or need-based design of its website. Evaluation of such personal data is done, even of user who were not logged into YouTube, for need-based advertisement and to inform other YouTube users of your activities on our website.

How long and in what way YouTube will retain your data is beyond Visteon’s control. For further information concerning purpose and scope of data collection and processing, refer to YouTube’s privacy policy.

You have a right to object to such processing of your personal data by YouTube. To do so, contact YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. For additional information, see the YouTube (Google) Privacy Policy.

Information from Minors

Our website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to the website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from people under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this website or on or through any of its features/registration forms, make any purchases through the website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a person under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a person under 13, please contact us at:

What We Do with Information You Provide Us

When contacting us about a product or service, visitors to our website may decide to send us information that identifies them personally. When that is the case, Visteon will only use that information to identify the user as a customer and to determine how to respond to the electronic mail and other internal business purposes. We will not share this information with third parties, except to the extent required by law, or to fulfill the purpose for which you provided it.

Visteon will not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to others.

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our website.

Visteon will retain the data collected only as long as it is useful or necessary to address the request or needs of the visitor.

Visteon administers and operates the Visteon website from the U.S. Other Visteon sites may be administered and operated from various locations outside the U.S.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users of our website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to akamal@visteon.com or write us at:

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the website.

The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the website.

Visteon will grant access to your data to those employees who are responsible for technical administration, maintenance and further development of the websites and the provision of the services you may have subscribed. In addition, Visteon engages external IT service companies to maintain its IT systems, and other service providers who assist Visteon to operate the website, to help with Visteon’s business functions, or to provide the services you have requested. These third-party service providers may be able to access your data when performing their services. Visteon will contractually obligate these recipients to confidentiality to safeguard your data from disclosure and utilize an adequate level of data protection. For example, if legally required, Visteon will require such third parties to sign the EU or Swiss Model Clauses. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Your Rights

If you are located in Europe and GDPR applies to you, and you are using this website in relation to the offering of goods or services, you have the following rights. These rights can be exercised by contacting us using the email at the end of this policy:

Obtain information on your data in order to check and verify such data.

Receive a copy of your data.

The right to be forgotten.

Correction, deletion or restriction of the processing, which also includes the right to have incomplete or incorrect data rectified by supplementary information.

Right to object to the processing.

You may receive your provided data in a structured, common and machine-readable format and transfer this data to another controller as long as you have consented to the processing, or the processing is based on a contract.

Right to file a complaint with the regulatory authorities in connection with the processing of your data.